The D. Case: Or The Truth About The Mystery Of Edwin Drood
by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini
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World-famous sleuths Lew Archer, Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, Jules Maigret, Philip Marlowe, Hercule Poirot, Nero Wolfe, and Porfiry Petrovich gather in Rome to ponder Charles Dickens's final and unfinished novel.Tags
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Interesting and humorous discussions of the possible conclusion to Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood, some of which make sense on various levels, but I didn't really buy any of them. I truly think Drood wasn't really dead. I'm not sure about much else, but I'm pretty confident of that. But the final conclusion of the book was so stupid that it negated any credibility that the rest of the book had. At least it was humorous and thought-provoking.
All the great fictional detectives convene to complete Dickens' THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. The complete text by Dickens is included. But no, there is no completion. It is a bait and switch.
A fun book, with lots of humorous passages, information about Dickens, and--since the original novel is also included--not a bad way to read Drood.
Very clever idea. Enjoyed this a great deal, yet I don't believe I finished it.
Eine faszinierende Versammlung bietet dieser (für mich beste) Roman des kongenialen italienischen Autorenduos Fruttero & Lucentini: Die berühmtesten Detektive der Literaturgeschichte haben sich in Rom zu einem Kongress versammelt, um den mysteriöstesten ungelösten Kriminalfall der Literaturgeschichte zu lösen: "Das Geheimnis von Edwin Drood", der unvollendete letzte Roman von Charles Dickens harrt der Aufklärung. Abwechselnd mit den Kapiteln des Dickens-Romans werden wir mit den Diskussionen der Meisterermittler konfrontiert - und die Lösung des Falles Drood wird auch eine des "Falls Dickens"... Spannend, witzig, klug!
May 22, 2009German
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- La verità sul caso D
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- La verità sul caso D.
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- 1989
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- Edwin Drood; Sherlock Holmes; Father Brown; Hercule Poirot; Toad
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- Die Ruine liegt unter dem Regen wie eine große ausgebrannte Augenhöhle, das erloschene Auge eines unnütz gewordenen Zeugen, verblaßt zur bloßen Verkehrsinsel zwischen den Strömen der Autos.
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- … dopo una pubblica manifestazione di filantropia, durante la quale certi devoti orfani in tenera età erano stati ingozzati di bomboloni gonfi di crema e paroloni gonfi di boria.
È uno di quegli angolini dove pochi passeri fuligginosi cinguettano su alberi fuligginosi, come se si dicessero l'un l'altro: – Facciamo finta di essere in campagna, – e dove qualche zolla di prato e qualche carrettata d... (show all)i ghiaia consentono loro di fare questa consolante offesa alla loro, del resto minuscola, intelligenza.
«Forse a noi non si addice, – proseguì il Decano, – essere partigiani. Non partigiani. Noi ecclesiastici manteniamo caldo il cuore e fredda la mente, e teniamo una giudiziosa via di mezzo». - Disambiguation notice
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The D. Case is NOT the same book as The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Please do not combine them!
Charles Dickens is not the sole author of this work. Edwin Drood is contained here within a work by Car... (show all)lo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, who ought also to have author credit on the book.
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